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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:40:13 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Owe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
Message-ID:  <20050617214013.GF36959@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no>
References:  <20050617210607.GA36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200506172112.j5HLC6U9043819@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> <20050617212125.GC36959@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42B34020.3050203@stud.ntnu.no>

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Owe Andr? J?rgensen wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote..
> >
> >>Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>If you give me $5 per Unix system found there I can retire here and now.
> >>
> >>For financial transaction processing, and the customer's accounts?
> >
> >
> >Yes.  Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms.  
> >You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes.  You don't
> >think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..?
> >
> >
> >>I hope it's not my bank..
> >
> >
> >It might very well be your bank..
> >
> I'm sorry to say it, but there is a lot of mainframes a quite few unix 
> boxes in the central accounting and transfer departments.
> 
> remember that there are a shitload of Cobol Mainframes that are still 
> used by a lot of banks..

Sure.  But that does not mean there are not a lot of UNIX machines carrying
high-value financial data in the banking world.

What we forgot:  there are quite some Tandem boxes too, for things like
dealing rooms and ATM networks etc.

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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